The typical college general education curriculum, fractured into discipline-based silos, often fails to engage students with the profound questions and pressing controversies that shape human life and ...

This report comes at a time when our nation and our species face profound challenges. Ensuring adequate food, water, energy, and mineral resources to support a growing human population competes with ...

Because their disciplinary knowledge organization models are still under construction, students might not be sure how discrete pieces of knowledge learned from lectures, videos, or readings fit ...

For many district and school leaders, the new school year has not only brought excitement but also uncertainty about how to address their school discipline dilemma. Directors of student supports and ...

Threshold concepts are the core knowledge and disciplinary capabilities that students must successfully transition through to make progress in their majors. The threshold concepts (TC) framework is ...

The challenges facing us such as the UN’s SDGs are complex and defy conventional disciplinary expertise. While conventional disciplinary domains have undoubtedly yielded valuable insights, they tend ...

As the previous chapters show, discipline-based education research (DBER) is a relatively new area of research composed of a set of loosely affiliated fields with common goals and methods. The fields ...